@maxmustermann If the deep state actually agreed to back down, and allow Trump to reform America, under the condition that everything Epstein related gets closed forever, honestly I'd take it. Not the best outcome, but not the worst either. At least you could hope that things go back on track for the nation, and you could hope to reform the justice system, so that you don't get another Epstein like child trafficking cult that gets away with it.

For now though, I'm not convinced this is what happened. I'm more inclined to believe that everyone involved, from Trump, to Bondi, to Kash Patel, ran off their mouths, because they actually thought the FBI had a perfect case against Epstein and clients, but it was being suppressed by higher ups. Only to be left with eggs on their faces when they discover that the FBI of the past did a shitty job, and it doesn't actually have the evidence everyone thought they did.

So you have the likes of Bondi making it sound like she has the Epstein client list on her desk, only for a sentence later, in the same interview, to also say she didn't actually look at the documents that reached her desk. Funny that people who now keep citing that piece of an interview fail to notice her directly saying "I didn't look at it yet". How would she know there was a list if she didn't look? The reality is, she didn't know. She lied to make herself look good, because she was that convinced the client list must exist and be in the possession of the FBI, so it didn't cross her mind that what she was saying was even a lie, or that someone would catch the lie.

Right now I think either FBI was so incompetent, that they really didn't manage to investigate the Epstein thing at all, they missed evidence, they failed to collect it, etc., so they didn't have enough to go investigate further down the rabbit hole. And without Epstein or Maxwell squealing like a pig, they had nothing.

Or the other big possibility, the evidence has already been destroyed prior to this year. The people responsible will of course not admit to something like that, and the destruction will have been hidden enough that someone like Kash Patel wouldn't even realize that what he's looking at is tempering with evidence instead of just a lack of evidence.

In either case, you have a sleuth of people that bragged about releasing stuff out of the FBI if they get in charge, and now they discover they don't actually have much to release. It's the same shit as with the JFK story. Everyone was so sure that more released documents would reveal how the CIA killed JFK. Well... you had more documents released. Haven't heard anyone saying anything since. Another big nothing burger. It's the same thing. People assumed FBI/CIA had some world shattering info, and then got disappointed when it turns out they didn't.

Only regular people can't even cope with their disappointment that they were wrong. So they'll keep inventing new conspiracy theories, until they can manage to explain why Trump and his team didn't release the info they wanted to be true. "Trump made a deal with the Deep State!!!". Sure. Definitely. I'm pretty sure the deep state would rather ignite all nuclear weapons on US soil then cut a deal with Trump.